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- Location
- Suffolk, UK
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
I am trying to shift over to low cab high fat.
At the moment I am on low carb high protein.
As far as I can tell you need to test to check if and when you go into ketosis.
Ketostix are not reliable because they show when your kidneys are chucking out unwanted ketones.
If your body is working well at burning fats then the ketones will be metabolised and not excreted, so will not show up in the urine.
I have an Abbott Freestyle Lite meter for BG monitoring but this will not measure ketones.
Can anyone recommend a meter which will measure both (or just ketones) and which has a USB connection (or I suppose BlueTooth would do) and a diary application so I can save and annotate my readings on a PC?
I think Abbott do one but I would like to consider alternatives.
Cheap test strips would also be attractive.
Cheers
LGC
At the moment I am on low carb high protein.
As far as I can tell you need to test to check if and when you go into ketosis.
Ketostix are not reliable because they show when your kidneys are chucking out unwanted ketones.
If your body is working well at burning fats then the ketones will be metabolised and not excreted, so will not show up in the urine.
I have an Abbott Freestyle Lite meter for BG monitoring but this will not measure ketones.
Can anyone recommend a meter which will measure both (or just ketones) and which has a USB connection (or I suppose BlueTooth would do) and a diary application so I can save and annotate my readings on a PC?
I think Abbott do one but I would like to consider alternatives.
Cheap test strips would also be attractive.
Cheers
LGC
